Technology Planning: Streamline the M&A Process
Understand the Critical Milestones During Each Phase of the Journey
The M&A process is complex and nuanced. Technology compatibility, IT infrastructure longevity and overall IT security are all crucial to a successful end result. Below you’ll find the important milestones of each phase of the M&A journey and key considerations to help ensure a secure, streamlined and timely IT implementation for your organization.
A Guide to Mapping Your M&A Journey
PHASE 1
Vision
Consider IT transformation and determine how technology can help the company remain relevant to customers and more advanced than competitors.
- Acquisition target identified.
- Determine overall IT merger goal.
- Execute proper agreements.
- Determine timeline.
- Determine key IT differences between organizations.
- Determine differences in IT management.
- Plan IT staff changes/training.
- Develop plan for managed services.
- Develop plan for mobility management.
- Plan security consolidation.
PHASE 2
Due Diligence
Conduct in-depth audits to gain a deep understanding of the technology the acquiring company will assume.
- Review existing IT strategies/roadmaps.
- Conduct gap analysis.
- Identify necessary migrations and consolidations.
- Evaluate and select core and ancillary applications.
- Identify infrastructure, operating systems and cloud considerations.
- Determine acquired company’s asset and data lifecycle, compliance and privacy policies.
- Inventory communication networks/systems.
- Review existing application mapping, dependencies and prioritization.
- Complete system security IT assessment.
- Inventory data-related systems.
- Review vendor contracts, agreements, commitments.
- Review acquired company's policy enforcement.
- Establish IT governance policies.
- Review in-process IT/business initiatives.
- Conduct telecom audit.
- Plan IT admin and help desk management.
- Review application/software licensing changes.
PHASE 3
Integration & Implementation
Develop a strategy that maps the current technology state to the planned future state. This phase requires integration of systems, addressing compliance issues and effective employee communications.
- Finalize IT roadmap and plan, design and architecture, and ensure IT initiatives are on track.
- Conduct any necessary IT staff changes or training.
- Complete core and ancillary application conversions, installations and integrations.
- Deploy new data-related systems.
- Implement security, website and mobility management changes.
- Implement asset and data lifecycle management.
- Implement management of licenses, contracts and service-level agreements.
- Implement IT admin and help desk management.
- Procure, deploy and manage new communication networks and systems.
- Access, authorization and authentication control.
- Ensure hardware and software licensing is up to date.
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